Darkheart Thicket - Mythic Keystone Strategy Guide

Welcome to the Darkheart Thicket M+ Guide. This guide will assume that you have a basic understanding of the mechanics of the trash and bosses that are outlined in our Darkheart Thicket Dungeon Guide. This Guide will go over common routes to achieve trash count, indicate difficult trash packs at high keystones and provide tips for affixes.

Composition

When doing high keystones in Darkheart Thicket, we would recommend the following things in your composition:

Poison Dispel - Two Poison debuffs can be dispelled harmlessly and prevent a large amount of damage.

Rogue - A rogue allows the party to easily skip two packs of trash.

Route Advice

There are a few minor skips that allow you to skip trash packs. Following the regular path and skipping these packs will still achieve you mob count.

Before Archdruid Glaidalis

After killing the pack with two and a and taking a left, players can jump up and over the tree branch to skip a difficult pack with multiple deadly .

After Archdruid Glaidalis

The Dryad is CC'ed in her second position by 忏悔.The second pack after Archdruid Glaidalis is able to be skipped.

The will patrol between two different locations

Players should mount up and run along the right wall once the Dryad has finished one of her patrol loops and come to a complete stop at either position.

You can make this easier by applying a CC effect when she has stopped after a patrol.

Before Dresaron

The last before Dresaron can be skipped while it is on the left.

A Rogue's 扰乱 or 纠缠根须 can hold the in place while the group moves past.

If any remaining or are pulled past the (even if no player is nearby), the will aggro.

Before Shade of Xavius

The last pack before Shade of Xavius is one of the hardest mob packs in the dungeon. However, you can skip this pack using a Rogue's 潜伏帷幕 or Invisibility Potions.

If using 潜伏帷幕, the Rogue will have to 闷棍 the and then 扰乱 the rest of the pack to the right.

The group will have to quickly enter the 潜伏帷幕 and make their way through before the 扰乱 wears off

Mob Count

Darkheart Thicket requires 280 points worth of mob kills. On Teeming, Darkheart Thicket requires 336 points worth of mob kills. Below is a table that shows you the value of each creature.

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Archdruid Glaidalis

Tank the boss here to avoid moving for 原始狂暴.The strategy for Archdruid Glaidalis has not changed from Heroic or Mythic. You are able to position Archdruid Glaidalis in a corner to reduce the amount of movement of the boss.

When you first zone in to Archdruid Glaidalis' area, there is a small house with a staircase on the left.

If the tank is standing on the stairs with the boss in front of him, the tank is already against a wall for the 原始狂暴 knockback.

In addition, the small staircase in front of the house acts as a wall and the Archdruid will charge into it with 原始狂暴 and not move or hit your Tank.

If the boss casts 原始狂暴 away from the staircase, make sure to avoid his charge as it will likely one shot non-tanks at high keystones.

After every 原始狂暴, the boss should be moved away from the staircase before 夜幕 to avoid covering the area. After the adds are dead, the boss can be moved back to the staircase.

Ranged DPS should stand close to the boss so the boss spends less time traveling during 痛苦撕扯.

During the RP before Archdruid Glaidalis becomes active, the six fallen druids will drop Sanguine.

Make sure to not stand behind a Sanguine pool, else the boss will heal for a significant amount of damage.

Falling behind on the DoT portion of 痛苦撕扯 may behind unhealable as you'll have to outheal both Grievous and the bleed to get the player above 90%.

Trash to Archdruid Glaidalis

The are some of the most lethal trash in the first area:

will only jump to ranged targets and deal near fatal damage with their 痛苦撕裂 ability.

If there's only one ranged target, that person will most likely get globaled by packs with multiple mobs.

If there's more than one ranged target, it increases the chance that the will jump to different people, increasing their chance of survival.

Alternatively, if there's no ranged targets (Holy Paladin or Mistweaver Monk healer and all melee), it can jump to anyone in the party -- greatly increasing the chance of surviving.

保护祝福 will cause the cat to ignore the target completely. For example, if there's two ranged targets, this will force all the cats to jump on the remaining ranged target.

The cat's leaps can be staggered using single target stuns. In packs of two, focus on stunning one until the other jumps.

Trash to Oakheart

's 邪恶蘑菇 will likely be a one-shot if triggered and the range of its damage is slightly larger than the green effect of the mushroom.

's 根须爆裂 will also likely be a one-shot, but the cast can be interrupted with stuns, knockbacks and other displacement effects.

will leap directly away from the current tank. The tank should make sure that it leaps in a favorable direction.If the tank needs to move the , use line-of-sight.

's 剧毒之矛 is a high damage dealing DoT that can be cleansed with a class with a poison dispel.

The in front of Oakheart requires good interrupts and stuns.

For every second that 折磨之眼 is channeling, that player will take a large amount of damage.

Use single target interrupts, AoE stuns and AoE Silences to prevent the casts as much as possible.

Because of 腐化灌注, any pulled with will get Bolstered.Try to avoid pulling extra since they will be buffed once the have been dealt with.

The area will likely become cluttered with Sanguine pools and 邪恶蘑菇. Make sure to plan your movement and kill the enemies against walls or other safe locations.

The pack that you are able to skip becomes slightly harder to skip with the Teeming difficulty.An extra is present and it becomes much harder to hug the wall and not pull this pack.

If you have a non-combat CC (禁锢, 闷棍 or 忏悔), use it on the to make it easier to avoid the mob pack.

The large pack by the fountain has an additional . This is another mob that you'll have to focus before the stop healing.

Dresaron

The Dresaron fight was changed in Patch 7.2 to change the amount of force during 下冲气流. There used to be a safe spot for ranged against the wall, but this was hotfixed in 7.2.5. Ranged will now need to handle 下冲气流 will deal immense damage and the healer should save cooldowns for it.

Players should watch the 下冲气流 timer and be directly under the boss when 下冲气流.

If you ever fall behind during 下冲气流, you will continue falling more and more behind as the channel continues and likely spawning Whelps.

Players should stand max melee range between 下冲气流 casts to avoid placing 大地咆哮 under the boss.

Whelps summoned from eggs with apply Necrotic.

It's important to handle 下冲气流 correctly to not stack up unnecessary stacks of Necrotic on your chat.

A Quaking proc during a 下冲气流 can lead to some people falling behind during the cast.

Players with movement speed increases should spread out farther and use it get to back after the Quaking has detonated.

Both 下冲气流 and 大地咆哮 hit very hard and healers will likely be struggling to keep the party out of Grievous range throughout this entire fight.

Be liberal with defensive cooldowns and minimize your damage taken as much as possible.

Trash to Dresaron

The trash to Dresaron is short and one mob can be skipped. Check the Route Advice section above for more information.

The are handled no differently on high keystones. The are deadly and can cause wasted time if 鲜血变身 is not interrupted.

鲜血突袭 will likely be a one-shot to any person hit, so make sure to be behind the elemental.

If you stun or displace the after it has finished it's cast, it will interrupt the charge in its tracks.

Make sure to pull the groups of together, and without a .

Any summoned Whelps will not cause Bolstering, but the Whelps can be Bolstered by and deaths.

It's difficult to see Sanguine underneath the water so try to remember where they die.

When die, if the Sanguine pools are stacked and a player enters, depending on the number of stacked pools, it has a shot of instantly killing the player.

There will be an extra present that is likely unable to be skipped.

We recommend pulling the back into the corner with no Whelp eggs to avoid the chance of summoning extra Whelps.

Shade of Xavius

The Shade of Xavius has the ability to quickly kill a player with all of his abilities. However, the abilities come in large bursts and therefore classes with large Damage Reduction cooldowns or even equipping a 普瑞达兹，萨瓦里克的杰作 specifically for this fight may be a good choice.

Tank the Shade of Xavius in the left corner beside where he spawns. This area only has one spawn location for 天启梦魇 that will hit him and grant him 天启强化.

All players, even ranged, should stand close to the boss. You never know who will get 增长妄想 or 梦魇乍醒 and may need to help out the melee.

梦魇箭 deals a large amount of damage and players should be full health before each 梦魇箭.

弱肉强食 will deal more damage to 梦魇箭 but over a come seconds. Healers should spam quick heals into the player.

Tanks will have frequent opportunities to reset Necrotic with Shade of Xavius' frequent casts.

If you're still having trouble, you'll want to avoid run away during any long cast, giving you extra time as hew runs towards you.

Players that are stacking with 梦魇乍醒 should spread out momentarily before collapsing again.

This will prevent extra damage that will be enough to kill any player targeted by 梦魇箭 at the same time.

Trash to Shade of Xavius

The tunnel to the Shade of Xavius is the most difficult section of the trash in the instance.

Every casted spell can be deadly and should be kicked whenever possible暗影箭 deals a large amount of damage to the tank

If the party has a disease dispel, it should be used to dispel 魔魂吸取 as will be leeching health with the debuff is active.The last pack before Shade of Xavius is the most deadly pack and will deal an incredible amount of damage to your tank. However, this pack can be skipped using a rogue, or invisibility potions.

Once some trash has started to die, players should make sure that all casts are interrupted.

暗影诱饵 will be cast early into combat and will trigger Bolstering. Due to its low health, it's inevitable that it will get AoE'd down in the group and players will have to simply deal with the extra stack of Bolstering.

Players should use stuns and kicks to ensure all casts are interrupted while Raging to keep your tank alive.